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Apogee
Curated by Jonathan Allen
May
8 - June 12
Opening
Reception: Saturday, May 8 3-6 PM
Apogee focuses on recent sculpture, painting, photography and installation
work that evokes extremes. Extremes appear formally and conceptually in
these works, through processes of repetition, mutation, and recontextualization.
The intensity and rigor of these processes gives these works a poetic
density. The artists of Apogee incorporate baffling incongruities
and astonishing material choices in their work. By examining and testing
the limits of process and material, these artists stake their creative
work at the apex of possible outcomes.
Alison
Collins site-specific installation, composed entirely of steel, will
fill an entire room of the exhibition. This new work is comprised of three
components: drawings made using steel wool, architecturally styled steel
rod frames, and human-size steel nests. Imagery of bergerettes, dead rabbits,
ribbons and fruit will fill this ambitious installation.
Mark
Robinson's Shame dramatically uses the object of ongoing global
violence and rhetoric: oil. Measuring six feet by six feet, this kinetic
wall piece continuously recycles a finite supply of oil in an infinite
cascade of moving oil.
Katarina
Wong's monochromatic paintings are composed using multiple layers
of traditional Chinese -more- painting techniques and hand sanding. The
resulting metallic surfaces are the outcome of a meditative process including
over a dozen hand-painted and hand-sanded layers of paint.
Kim
Baranowski's recent prints and photographs reinterpret nature imagery
through recontextualization and intervention. Her Memento Mori series
of color photographs superimpose dead animals and insects over National
Geographic imagery, and obliquely comment on the artificiality of representations
of nature. Similarly, her Replications prints mutate and replicate animals
and animal parts to disturbing and lyrical effect.
Through
site-specific installation, staged photography, and meditative acts of
painting, the artists of Apogee test the limitations of their respective
media, This is made evident through the processes they engage in to produce
their work. These artists adopt a rigorous attitude towards process and
material. By not accepting formal and conceptual limitations they push
beyond and transcend the work's extremes through unorthodox materials,
unconventional subject matter, and idiosyncratic processes. Such striving
and rigor positions these works at the upper extremes-or apogee-of creative
investigation.
Photos available upon request.
.This program
is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the
Arts, a state agency. Additional support is provided by the New York City
Department of Youth and Community Development, Bronx Council on the Arts/Cultural
Venture Fund, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (and it's
Material for the Arts program), Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion,
the Bronx Delegation of the New York City Council, and US Congressman José
E. Serrano's WCS-NOAA Lower Bronx River Partnership. BRAC is also a member
of The New York State Multi-Arts Centers consortium which receives funds
from NYSCA and The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation. Foundation support is provided
by New York Community Trust, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Center
for Arts Education with funds from the Annenberg Foundation, and The Helena
Rubinstein Foundation. This program is also made possible with funds from
the Ford Foundation through the Bronx Council on the Arts. |
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